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  1. This one is captioned correctly as WINSOME II. She is associated for most of us with Andrew Donovan the very well-known boat broker and retailer of boat goodies over many years, the brother of Des and and Brian (and a distant cousin of mine).
    Brief history; she was built by Lane Motor Boat Co in 1924 for David Teed of Newmarket (Teed Street is named after him) as MAUDE T (about the 4th of that name) with a big Stearns, but Teed died in 1925 and she was sold by his estate to Captain Emanuel who renamed her LATEX (long story). Emanuel sold to W S Pratt, the manager of the Northern Roller Mills in 1932. In 1941 she was bought by the RNZAF and served at Tauranga as W3, still with the Stearns. Andy Donovan bought her in 1946 from the Crown and renamed her WINSOME II in November 1946. He installed a new (not war-surplus) 8 cylinder Chrysler petrol engine and kept her for many years. Interestingly, when he registered her on Lloyds Yacht Register in 1964 he put down as designer “W. Hand”, the famous American power boat and yacht designer, not Lanes. Probably her lines were lifted from either Rudder or Power Boat & Yachting magazine like so many other NZ yachts and launches…..and why not? Andrew died in 1989. After that, WINSOME II was in the Town Basin at Whangarei for many years but I saw her quite recently on the marina at Havelock.

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